On Mon, 5 May 2008 09:22:14 -0800, Ernie Goble wrote:
OK, I just don't do this enough to know how it works. I was sent a site
plan from an engineer.
When you consider that Autocad to Autocad transfers within an office are
sometimes fraught with peril, brace yourself, but hope for the best. If
the engineer has done this often
enough, you should have a drawing in a flavor that Datacad (and older
versions of Autocad) can read. If not, ask for "2000i" or earlier.
Once imported, many of these Autocad files have lterally hundreds of
layers, symbols with insertion points miles from the symbols themselves,
and a host of other peculiarities (Revit)
Layer manager is your best friend (delete empty layers). I also tend to
instantly set up a go-to-view or two that are useful and use those as
x-refs in the drawings I'm working in.
If you don't have to do this really often, the challenges are refreshing.
Ted
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